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CO-OPERATION 


Vol, 19 


PUBLIC AFFAIRS 


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: CALGARY, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1954 


Authorized as Second Class Mall, 


Post Office Department, Ottawa 


LEADER 


SOCIAL PROGRESS 


No, 14 


« CANADIAN POLICY NOT CAUSE OF WORLD SURPLUSES. 


High Supports in ot pe. bo Prospective Meyers 


US Cause Higher 
Wheat Acreages 


Reduction .in Production 
“Patterns Can't Fairly 
Apply to Canada 


VIEW EXPRESSED 


At C.F.A. Meeting — "Give- 
aways” to Under-developed 
Countries No Solution 


(See also page 13) 


By COLIN G. GROFF 


AMHERST, N.S. — Because 
Canada's large surplus of 
wheat is not the result of 
any change of production 
pattern, but of exceptionally 
heavy yields through three 
successive years; while on 
the other hand, the U.S. high 
price support program has 
induced increases in acreage 
beyond the normal pattern— 
for these reasons any reduc- 
tion in production patterns 
could not fairly apply to Can- 
ada, but should apply to 
those countries where high 
price supports and subsidies 
have induced abnormal ex- 
pansion. 


These views were expressed 
at the.semi-annual session here 
of the Canadian Federation of 
Agriculture. W. J. Parker and 
other western delegates stress- 
ed very strongly the fact that 
the three unusually large crops 
in succession were responsible 
for our surpluses, and Presi- 
dent H. H. Hannam and others 
reflected the view that the 
‘ remedy should be provided by 
the countries with high sup- 
ports. There had been no more 
wheat acreage in the past 
three years in Canada, Dr. 
Hannam pointed out, than be- 
fore the war. 

That so-called “give away” 
programs of farm surpluses to 
under-developed countries pro- 
vide only a measure of tempor- 
ary relief, and had no funda- 
mental bearing on the over-all 
problem of raising the status of 
these countries economically 
or otherwise, was emphasized 
by President Hannam, in con- 

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Atomic-Age Royal Navy Shows Its Paces 


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diateteteteterstosteteveceas pe Potestaatatetatetee SEASONS 


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The United Kingdom’s atomic-age commitments keep her ships at five 


stations across the world. She has 5 battleships, 13 aircraft carriers, 26 


cruisers, 107 destroyers, 161 frigates and miscellaneous ships. 


The picture 


shows, at speed recently, two ships of Britain’s Mediterranean fleet — the 
cruisers H.M.S. Gambia (nearest camera) and H.M.S. Bermuda. 


Warm Welcome Awaits Members of Tour 


Shortly before press time, the. following message was 
received from the General Secretary of “Agriculture et 
Tourisme,” which is under the patronage of the Ministers 
of Agriculture, Foreign Affairs and Public Works and Travel 


of the French Republic: 


Paris, July 19th, 1954. 
Publisher, 
The Western Farm Leader, 
Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 
Dear Sir: 

Dr. Pedro Chartos, of the 
Holiday Travel Service, paid us 
a visit on the occasion of his 
last trip to Paris, and told us 
of the Farmers’ Tour of Europe 
which he is planning this year 
under your high patronage. 

I wish to tell you of the grat- 
ification that we feel that you 
should have called confidently 
upon us to participate in the 
carrying out of your plans, and 
of the great pleasure with 
which we shall receive your 
compatriots. 

It is most important that 
direct contacts be established 
among farmers of all countries, 
and particularly between Can- 
adian and French farmers. It 
is really the surest way to help 


to a knowledge of one another 
and mutual understanding. 
This will not only be of advan- 
tage to the agriculture of our 
two countries. It will also 
strengthen the bonds of amity 
that unite our two peoples in 
so many fields. | 
‘We have.tried to plan for our 
friends from Canada the most 
pleasant and instructive itiner- 
ary, extending from our south- 
ern regions to the extreme 
north of France. . We have 
done our best to enable our 
visitors to see our diverse types 
of farm production, and many 
aspects of life in the different 
regions of France. : 
It will also be, I am sure, an 
honor and a great pleasure for 
the directors of our various 
national organizations, profes- 
sional and agricultural, as well 


‘as for the representatives of 


our Department of Agriculture, 


Win Approval 


Program Wheat 


Board Believed 
Far Sighted One 


_ Several Nations Will Get First- 


Hand Knowledge of Our 
Grain Industry 


TO ENSURE CONFIDENCE 


Brazilian Representatives First 
to Arrive and Others 
to Follow - 


By M. McDOUGALL, Press Gallery 
Leader Correspondent 

OTTAWA, Aug. 4th. — The 
decision taken by the Wheat 
Board a short time ago and 
agreed to by the government to 
invite representatives from 
several nations in Europe, the 
Far East and from Latin Am- 
erica, both actual and prospec- 
tive purchasers of Canadian 
wheat, to visit and secure a 
first hand knowledge of the 
Canadian grain industry in its 
various phases, is considered 
here to be a far sighted pro- 
gram. Its influence is to be 
felt in the future. 


Will Create Confidence 
Information gained in Canada for 
example by the Brazilians, the first to 
arrive, on Canadian methods of grad- 
ing wheat will serve to ensure confid- 
ence in the standards conscientiously 
followed in the Canadian trade. Buy-: 
ers will be quite sure of the quality 
of the wheat purchased under the dif- 
ferent grades. Methods of milling fol- 
lowed in this country may also assist 
millers in the country from which the 
representatives come. The visitors 
will gain useful information, which 
they will pass on to their country- 

(Continued on page 8): 


to welcome your compatriots 
to our country. 

I shall see Dr. Chartos in a 
few days, in order to complete 
the arrangements for this tour. 

Please rest assured of our 
most friendly collaboration. 
We look forward very much to 
welcoming our Canadian 
friends. 

Please accept, sir, my very 
kindest regards. 

Yours very truly, 

J. DURAND-DROUHIN, 
General Secretary. 


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THE WESTERN FARM LEADER 


August 6th, 1954 


Everyone Loves a Picnic! 


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close to Red Deer, at a very early date. 


Former Dairy Field Days 
It is a very long time since there was a co-op 


picnic in Central Alberta. We used to have Dairy 
Field days, a few years ago, which combined a 
picnic lunch at noon, with the afternoon program 
arranged by the Dairy Branch. 


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People used to bring their lunches. In some 


instances the local calf club held their achieve- 
mant day too; and, all in all, these “‘picnic-come- 


tield-days’’ were enjoyed by a lot of people. 


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WISE WORDS REGARDING Ebb 


If ever there was a time when extra care and good 
management of your poultry flock paid off it is now. 


The penalty for ranging hens and incorrect 
feeding is at least 20 cents a dozen. There is $6 
a case difference in the value of A eggs and B 


eggs. 


Alt is not difficult to get that extra 20c a dozen. Keep 
your laying quarters clean for clean eggs — gather eggs 
two or three times a day — keep them cool and dry and 
market them regularly. : 


For complete satisfaction use your own organization. 


. 


The Central Alberta Dairy Pool 


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plants throughout Central Alberta 
and in the South at Brooks and Lethbridge. 


N looking through the Red Deer Advocate 
of last week, I saw an announcement re- that someone has to spend a little time on them, 
garding a picnic to be held somewhere qnd whether sponsors have run out of time or 


CENTRAL ALBERTA DAIRY POOL SECTION 


HAGE PPPOE 


SLOGAN FOR TODAY: “Test and weigh and keep the cows that pay” 


We still have Dairy Field days, and, whilst 
they are still valuable, they have been shorn of 
much that was enjoyable and neighborly. 


Picnics Need Organizing 
- These picnics need organizing, which means 


just run out of enthusiasm I don't know; but, as 
This picnic will be.held under the auspices was said at the outset, it's a long time since co- 
of the Red Deer Co-operative Store. Whether or operators and their friends and neighbors en- 
not there will be other co-operative sponsors I joyed ‘a co-op picnic. §§_£—— 
do not know, but be that as it may, the idea is a 
good one. 


Our First Picnic 
There are few CADP mem- 
bers who will well remember 
the first picnic that the CADP 
held at Gooseberry Lake in the 
Consort district (I believe it 
was the first picnic). 


What a day that was! The 
day was hot, and people began 
arriving early by buggy, hay 
racks, wagon and’ box, horse- 
back and many on foot. The 
kids were there in force — 
someone said they had never 
seen so many kids in one spot 
before. We gave out tickets 
for chocolate bars and soft 
drinks, and when the kids 
found out that these tickets 
could be exchanged for bars, 
they were off like fly bitten 
calves to cash in on them. 


Beginning to Show Strength 


The Co-operative Movement 
at that time was beginning to 
show evidence of the power 


and influence it was to become, 


and this get-together of people 
from a large area gave them 
the opportunity of meeting and 
talking not only to their neigh- 
bors, but also to people who 
were convinced that the 
only way to improve the eco- 
nomic conditions under which 
farm people generally were liv- 
ing lay in their own hands. 


Over twenty years have 
elapsed since that picnic, and 
whilst economic conditions 
have vastly improved, the need 
for constant vigilance to keep 
what farm people have gain- 
ed by their own efforts and to 


further strengthen their own 


organization is a vital need to- 
day. : 
The Southern Alberta Picnic 
Getting back to picnics 
again — did you ever hear of 
the picnic that Southern Al- 
berta Co-ops put on every year 


ing 


rain and the crowd was kept 
down to around 3,000 people, 


We often wondered what 
would happen if we had a nice 
and fair day. This year we 
found out. Saturday, June 
19th, was the day and by 1:30 
p.m, 1,434 cars had registered 
— we didn’t count after 1:30 
p.m. It was estimated by the 
count of tickets which were 
given out for hot dogs, ice 
cream and drinks, that there 
were close to 5,000 people 
around. 


Most people brought their 
own lunch, but notwithstand- 
this, our concessions 
booths dispensed 500 Ibs. of 
Wweiners, 5,000 buns, 1,500 juice 
sticks, 3,000 dixie cups; gallons 
untold of drinks, and dispensed 
enough free coffee to irrigate 
ten thirsty acres. There were 
races for the kids, sports for 
the adults. There was square 
dancing on the lawn in the 
afternoon to the music of. 
Handley’s orchestra, and music 
at intervals by the Pincher 
Creek band. 

A very short platform, con- 
sisting of introductions of the 
Co - operative representatives 
who made the picnic possible 
and a good speaker who spoke 
for 15 minutes. \ ~ 


The folks start to arrive 
by 9:00 a.m. and are all away 
as a rule by 6:30 or 7:00 p.m, 

Friends of Central ‘Alberta, 
that’s a picnic! It’s a lot of 
work, but we feel that it is well 
worth while, and whilst we do 
not wish four to five thousand 
people on you for your day — 
we do hope that you have a 
profitable and enjoyable day. 

Yes, everyone loves a picnic. 

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Britain Narrowing Gap 
LONDON, Eng.— Progress towards 
closing the gap between the country’s 
exports and imports is shown in the 
trade figures for the first six months 
of the year, Exports averaged $627.4 


at the Experimental farm in—millions a month, 7 per cent more 
Lethbridge? This year we went than in the corresponding period last 


after a fine day for a change 
— the last two years we had 


year; and imports, at an average 
rate of $781.8 millions, represented © 
a decrease of 1 per cent, 


August 6th, 1954 


CENTRAL ALBERTA DAIRY POOL SECTION @# 


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THE WESTERN 


Three-Minute Milking Increases 
Production 


HIS time saving idea is not new, and many 
dairymen are using it to their advantage 


and profit. 


As a matter of fact, this is one of the features 
of our film, “The Science of Milk Production,” and 
many people we know who, alter seeing the ad- 
vantages of this simple system demonstrated in 
the film, put it into practise. For those who use 
the milking machine and who do not know of 
this idea we present it below: 


New Fast Method 


Farmers wanting to save 
time with their milking chores 
and at the same time increase 
milk production are using the 
‘new fast 3-minute method of 
milking. 

Extension dairymen point 
out that a man with a 20-cow 
herd can save up to an hour a 
day. Some dairymen report 
that they have gotten from 10 
to 20 per cent increase in pro- 
duction on the same ration af- 
ter adopting the fast-milking 
practice. That is an important 
factor, especially with high 
production costs. 


Less Udder Trouble — Cleaner 
Milk 

Another advantage for the 3- 
minute method is that it re- 
duces udder trouble, partic- 
ularly mastitis. Also, cleaner 
milk is produced. 

The udder and teats are 
washed and massaged 
thoroughly with warm, damp 
cloth before milking. Then 
each teat is checked for abnor- 
mal milk by withdrawing the 
first three or four squirts into 
the fine screen-covered strip 
cup. If abnormal milk shows 
up in a cow, milk her last. 

About one minute after pre- 
paration of the udder, attach 
the machine. Milk the cow for 
three minutes. Most cows will 
milk out in this length of time 
when they become used to the 
method. 

The next step is machine 
stripping. As the udder emp- 
ties, the teat cups have a tend- 
ency to crawl upward on the 
teats. This can be prevented 
by holding down on the teat 
cups. While doing this, the op- 
erator can massage each quar- 
ter downward to help remove 
the last of the milk. It makes 
hand stripping unnecessary. 

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IMPLEMENT SALES DOWN 


OTTAWA, Ont, — Sales of farm im- 
plements and equipment were down 
five per cent last year, states the 
Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the 
first drop in more than a decade. 
Sales of repairs parts were up 2 per 


cent, Es 
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A 153-bed nursing home for the 
aged is being opened at Melfort, Sas- 
katchewan., 


Early Announcement 
of Extension of Floor 
Butter Price Asked 


AMHERST, N.S. — Early announce- 
ment of an extension of the floor 
price program for butter, of 58 cents 
wholesale, Montreal, which expires 
next sprihg, was asked by the Cana- 
dian Federation of Agriculture in a 
resolution adopted by the semi-an- 
nual meeting here, 

Speaking on the situation, Gilbert 
MacMillan, president of the Dairy 


Farmers of Canada, declared that but 
for the inroads of margarine, on the 
domestic butter market of Canada, 
there would be no problem in Canada 
in respect to butter surpluses.—C.G.G. 


A.F.A. NOTES 


By JAMES R. McFALL, Secretary 


C.F.A. Summer Board Meeting 


As these notes are written, C.F.A. 
directors from across Canada are 
meeting at Amherst, Nova Scotia, and 
no doubt a report of the meeting will 
be appearing in another place in this 
issue of The Western Farm Leader. 
Alberta is being represented by Roy 
C. Marler, president of the A.F.A., Ben 
Plumer and Hugh Allen. Mr. Allen 
will act for Mr. Kapler who was un- 
able to attend. He will also take part 
in a meeting of the C.F.A. National 
Swine Committee. Others from Al- 
berta include J. J. MacLellan, vice- 
president, United Grain Growers, and 
Leonard D. Nesbitt. 


The three-day session commenced 
July 27th, with a very full agenda. 
Reports will be heard from delegates 
who attended the I.F.A.P. conference 
at Nairobi. also the North American 
regional meeting of I.F.A.P. at Wash- 
ington in March. 

The C.F.A. has had a national com- 
mittee at work instructed to formu- 
late and present a National Farm 
Policy. This committee has done a 
great deal of preliminary work and 
will have presented an interim report 
for consideration of the _ directors. 
Other items included farm credit 
study, tariffs, Canadian Meat Council, 
hog grades and report on annual 
meeting resolutions. 

A day is set aside as an open ses- 
sion and at this time all farm people 
will have been welcomed to take part 
in the discussion. At this time Mari- 
time delegates will have presented re- 
ports and led discussion on develop- 
ments in potato marketing and the 
apple industry, 

While these topics may not be of 
particular concern to prairie people, 
their consideration helps to build and 
strengthen national understanding 
and inter-provincial ties. This forms 
the basic reason why the C.F.A. meet- 

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FARM LEADER 


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for Heroic Father 


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Seven-year-old Susan Curtis poses 
at Buckingham Palace with the Vic- 
toria Cross awarded posthumously to 
her father, Lieut. Philip Curtis, who 
was killed in Korea leading a platoon 
of the Gloucester regiment in an at- 
tack. Susan received the medal dur- 
ing a private audience with the 
Queen. Her mother died four years 


ago and Susan now lives with her 
grandmother, 


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To Hold International 
Conferences on Dairy 
Surpluses and Markets 


AMHERST, N.B.—To review the 
present international situation in 
respect to dairy surpluses, prices 
and marketing conditions, two 
conferences will be held during 
the next few months, under the 
sponsorship.,of the International 
Federation of Agricultural Pro- . 

_ ducers. 

The first conference, for Euro- 
pean countries, will be held in 
London, England, in the fall; and 
another, for North American . 
members of the IFAP, will be — 
held in Washington, D.C., later. 
It is understood that representa- 
tives of each group will sit in 
on the other's conferences, and 
give assistance. 

This announcement was made 
to the semi-annual meeting of 
the Canadian Federation of Agri- 
culture here, by K. M. Betzner of 
Ontario, IFAP delegate. 

Gilbert MacMillan, president of 
the Dairy Farmers of Canada, 
stated that the organization will 
send a delegate to the London 
meeting, to report on decisions 

there.—C.G.G. 


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Vol, 19 CALGARY, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1954 No. 14 


OBJECTIVE — TOTAL ERADICATION 
“Permanent control and final eradication 
must be the objective of any effective rat - 
control-program. Once started, there can be 
no slackening off. Sporadic campaigns will 
only reduce temporarily the number of rats 
which will soon grow up to their original 

numbers.” 


This paragraph, from ‘Rat Control in Al- 


* berta,” a sixteen-page pamphlet which has 


just come to hand, summarizes the thinking 
of our Department of Agriculture upon one 
of the most serious problems facing the pro- 
vince — a problem which is of primary con- 
cern to all Alberta farmers, 

The pamphlet, which is issued by the Field 
Crops Branch under the authority of the Min- 
ister, Hon. L. C. Halmrast, describes what the 
department has done and is doing to cope with 
the problem of making and keeping Alberta 
rat-free. It also sets forth very clearly the 
role which local authorities and citizens them- 
selves, including farmers, can play in combat- 
ting invasion by these noxious and destructive 
pests. A large number of illustrations help to 
demonstrate the methods which can be em- 
ployed most effectively in destroying rats, 
eliminating rat harborages, and in rat proofing 
of buildings. The authors are W. Lobay, 
supervisor of crop protection service and pest 
control, and A. M. Wilson, field crops commis- 
sioner. 

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‘Many authorities,” it is stated, “estimate 
that the damage done by one rat amounts to 
$20 per annum. At a rapid rate of reproduc- 
tion (one pair of rats may equal up to 50 or 
more ina year) the damage and financial loss 


‘ean soon build up to the million dollar mark. 


In the U.S. alone, rats damage 200 million 
bushels of grain yearly — the annual rat bill 
in that country is over 2 billion dollars, 

“It can be calculated that when rats be- 
come established in Alberta, the annual loss 
will be in the neighborhood of 25 million 
dollars.” 

We have not ascertained how much the Al- 
berta government is spending annually upon 
its campaign of rat eradication, though the 
figure is no doubt readily obtainable. What 
must be clear in the light of the foregoing 
estimate of the financial cost of a successful 
invasion, is that any outlay of money less than 
25 million dollars a year would be a sound 
investment if such expenditure were neces- 
sary. 

There can be little doubt, however, that 


only a very small fraction of that fantastic 


outlay, wisely and scientifically employed, can 
make Alberta a permanently rat-free Province. 
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To ensure permanent eradication, however, 
the vigilance and co-operation of everyone are 
necessary. As O. S. Longman, the deputy 
minister of agriculture, writes in a foreword 
to the pamphlet, ‘‘Rat control is everybody’s 
business, All persons, rural and urban, must 


become rat conscious and assume their share , 


of responsibility.” 
The department of agriculture is doing a 
good job; but it needs our assistance. 


“Sydney May’s” Passing 


And thus is it when we have reached the end—. 
Across death's threshold we must step. alone. 
There is no earthly power that can extend 
Our dalliance on pathways we have known. 
Our little imprint on the changing page 
Of mankind's troubled tale is doomed to fade; 
New faces and new voices crowd the stage 
That sees the passing of life’s cavalcade. 


But those whose talents have been spent to sow 
Some merriment in lives they chanced to touch, 
Blithe spirits who had laughter to bestow— 
These should be well-remembered, inasmuch 
The day's well-being often-times depends 
On healthy hearty laughter among friends. 
ISA GRINDLAY JACKSON 


A FINE ACHIEVEMENT 


Much fine work is being done by 4-H Clubs 
throughout the Province; and among the out- 
standing achievements is that of the ‘Spruce 
Grove 4-H Grain and Potato Club, which is 
shortly putting on its third annual “Agricul- 
ture and Homemakers’ Fair.” 

According to the catalogue, a large number 
of classes are provided, for grain and forage 
crops, flowers and vegetables, handicrafts and 
hobbies, and cooking. 

The forty-one boys and girls who make up 
the club are to be congratulated on the organ- 
ization of the fair, through which they are 
undoubtedly making a notable contribution to 
good farming and good living in their com- 


munity. : : : 


ONE-SIDED CRITICISM 


While an influential section of the press of the United 
States is persistently critical and sometimes scurrilous 
in its comment on the efforts of Britain and France (now 
joined by Canada) to enlarge their volume of two-way 
trade in non-strategic goods across the “Iron Curtain,” 
they have little to say about the highly successful 
efforts of West Germany in this field. West Germany, 
of course, is now regarded with much greater favor 
by these newspapers and periodicals than is Britain or 
France. 

As the Ottawa Citizen points out in a recent editorial 
on “Trade with China”: 

“A major delusion prevalent in Washington seems 
to. be that since Chancellor Adenauer is pro-Western, 
West Germany can be relied upon to take its cue from 
the United States in matters military, economic, and 
political. 

“The plain fact of experience, of course — and it is 
not necessarily discreditable to the Germans — is that 
a West German government must primarily serve Ger- 
man interests, which may not at all points coincide with 
the interests of other governments. 

“The point is illustrated by a report that despite the 
trade embargo and U.S, animosity toward Peking, West 
German exports to Communist China last year were 10 
times greater than in 1952... The Americans may be able 
to afford not to sell to China, but some other nations are 
right in there getting all the markets they can.” 


a REVOLT IN ASIA 


“Hunger is the main factor in the revolt in Asia. The 
poverty-stricken people have begun to realize that more 
food can be produced, and that their hunger and poverty 
are due not to an act of God, to be accepted with 
resignation, but to the selfishness or mismanagement of 
their rulers, or to an inefficient economic system .. . If 
you offered an Asian Roosevelt’s four freedoms or four 
sandwiches he would choose the ow sandwiches,” — 
Lord Boyd-Orr, : : oe eid | 


August 6th, 1954 


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THE WESTERN FARM LEADER 


LONDON, England. — Established as an international 
event which attracts visitors from all parts of the world, in- 
cluding North America, the Sixty-eighth Annual Dairy Show 
sponsored by the British Dairy Farmers’ Association, to be 
held at Olympia from October 26th to 29th, is expected to 
live up to and probably to surpass the records of recent years, 
when total entries in all classes, including the aristocrats of 
the main dairy breeds of cattle, has exceeded 10,000. Held 
under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, it will be 
visited on October 26th by Princess Margaret. 


Every Year Since 1877 
Except for interruptions dur- 


Interpreters are provided as required 
for visitors from non-English speak- 


ing two World Wars, the show ing countries. 


has been held every year since 
1877, under the same sponsor- 
ship. It has been moved to 
larger quarters from time to 
time, until now it occupies all 
three great halls of Olympia. 


Important Industrial Section 

The show will have an important 
industrial section, of interest to all 
who are engaged in dairying. Some 
idea of the magnitude of this one 
of the many ‘features of. the event, 
may be gathered from the fact that 
there will be upwards of 400 stands 
which rent, for the period of the show, 
for sums ranging from £5 to £255. The 
accent this year, states the secretary 
of the Association, Fred J. Ball, will 
be on the producing side of the in- 
dustry, but the distributive side will 


not be absent for, apart from the 
actual display of distributive machin- 


ery, some 21 makers of the larger 
distributive units will have offices in 
the, National Hall where information 
will be made available to visitors. 


Breeds of Dairy Cattle 

In the cattle section, in which there 
will be in the neighborhood of 800 
entries, classes are provided for Dairy 
Shorthorns, British Friesians, Red 
Polls, Ayrshires, Guernseys, Jerseys, 
Lincoln Red Shorthorns, South 
Devons, Welsh Blacks, Kerries, and 
Dexters. All cows must compete in 
the milking trials which take place 
prior to the judging. Milking may 
be done by hand or by machine. 

Bledisloe Trophy Highlight 

As usual the highlight will be the 
competition for the Bledisloe Trophy 
on Wednesday, October 27th. The 
winner is decided by a combination 
of Milking ‘Trial and Inspection points. 
In recent years it has been urged that 
in connection with this competition 
the points for milk rather favor the 
larger breeds. To offset this it has 
been decided that actual points gain- 
ed for milk will be expressed as a 
percentage of the breed’s qualifying 
standard — for instance, where the 
qualifying standard is 116, an animal 
‘paining 182.64 points in the milking 
trials will, for the purpose of the 
trophy, be credited with 157.45 points. 

Goats as well as cattle have an 
important role in dairy production, 
in Europe, especially of course in 
cheese production, and there will be 
a substantial number of entries in 
these classes. 

Butter, Cheese, Bacon 
Butter, cheese, and an especially 


large number of entries this year in . 


the bacon classes, which will be 
double last year’s total, will be fea- 
tures of the show. 
The galleries will again house 
' upwards of 5,000 poultry and pig- 
eons, together with an array of 
poultry houses and appliances. 

There will be exhibits of the prin- 

cipal breeds of rabbits. 

The horticultute and flower decora- 
tion section is always a colorful fea- 
ture of the show. s 

The international character of this 
show is now well established, and a 
reception committee to look after 
overseas -visitors is always at hand. 


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stands will be operated in the build- 
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FARM LEADER 


o-operative Dairy Factory 


By C. Fy ROOSENSCHOON 
Royal Netherlands Dairy Union 


The importance of the dairy factor for the farming com- 


munity is twofold, and may be divided into (a) direct and 


(b) indirect advantages. 

The direct advantage is that the 
milk producer at all times has at his 
disposal a well-equipped organiza- 
tion capable either of processing the 
milk industrially, or of selling it in 
bulk on a wholesale trade basis, 

In delivering his milk to the 
factory the dairy farmer has no 
need to strike a bargain about the 
price, since he is sure of receiving 
the full amount of the net sale 
price, 

The price is calculated according 
to the fat content; if necessary, in 
combination with a basic minimum 
figure, in which the non-fat milk 
solids are taken into consideration. 


Fair Basis for Settlement 


It was, in fact, mainly due to the 
co-operative dairy factories that the 
average farmer began to take an in- 
terest in the fat content of his milk. 
In the beginning, the factories settled 
for the milk at so much per litre or 
per kilogram, but it was not long be- 
fore they proceeded to determine the 
price according to the fat content, 
since fat is the most valuable com- 
ponent of milk. This, in fact, proved 
to be the most fair basis for the cal- 
culation of the share to which each 
milk supplier is entitled. For whereas 
a privatély-owned dairy factory buys 
its milk as raw material for which an 
average price may be paid, the co- 
operative factory must take heed to 
ensure that each supplier ‘receives 
his rightful share of the proceeds of 
sale, 


Private Factories Had to Follow 


For this reason the composition of 
the milk became a matter of the ut- 
most importance for all dairy farmers 
(in the end the _ privately-owned 
factories could not very well lag be- 
hind in this development); with the 
result that the general improvement 
of the stock came, to be regarded as 
being of vital significance. The fact 
that, at the time of writing, the milk 
production of more than 50 per cent 
of Dutch dairy cows is constantly be- 
ing individually checked is to great 
extent due to the policy of the dairy 
industry, for example by printing on 
every payment slip facts and figures 
showing the disadvantages arising 


from the possession of understandard 


and uncontrolled cattle. 


Driving Force in Dairy Farming 

Thanks to this policy, the co-opera- 
tive dairy factory has become, in by 
far the greater part of the Nether- 
lands countryside, the driving force 
in the development of Dutch dairy 
farming. The dairy factories are in 
constant and direct contact with all 
dairy farmers, The Herd Books are 
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is due of having made the Dutch 
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Herd Books. Excellent work has also 
been done in many cases by breeding 
bull stations, and this work is being 
made increasingly efficient by the in- 
troduction of artificial insemination. 
But in the background of this many- 
sided activity of Dutch cattle breeders 
one will always find the co-operative 
dairy factory. 
Made Dairying Remunerative 
It was the dairy factory that made 
the systematic raising the produc- 
tivity of milk cows a remunerative 
proposition. In the co-operative dairy 
industry the farmers possess an or- 
ganization which enables them to pro- 
cess the milk industrially, on a large 
scale, and for their own account. 


Thanks to the foundation of co- 
operative factories the work of the 
cattle breeders was given a broader 
economic objective; for henceforth 
interest was awakened not only in 
the breeding of fine cattle, but, in 
increasing measure, in cattle select- 
ed also:in respect of hereditary 
factors ‘contributing to the produc- 
tion of much milk with a high fat 
content. 
Sociologic Significance 


Apart from these economic values 
the dairy co-operation has also a pro- 
found sociologic significance, It has 
reinforced equally as the other forms 
of agricultural co-operation the con- 
fidence of the rural population in its 
own creative powers, 

All finance needed for the estab- 
lishment of the factories was put up 
by the farming community, their total 
investments today running into hund- 
reds of millions, 


The same applies to the financing 
of the co-operative dairy business and 
wholesale trading associations, both 
of which are financed either by farm- 
ers direct or through the intermediary 
of “Farmers’ Loan Banks”. In both 
cases profits from the investment go 
to the benefit of the agrarian popula- 
tion, so that the Dutch d-operative 
dairy industry is not. only a organi- 
zational improvement, but also a 
sound investment, 


Cause of Great Rise in Prosperity 


This form of self-financing, whic 
is a characteristic feature of all 
agrarian co-operative bodies, is one 
of the most important causes of the 
great rise in Netherlands agricultural 
prosperity, since the farmers them- 
selves provide both the capital and 
the raw materials required by the co- 
operative organizations, and reap the 
benefit from both, As the members 
have put themselves under the obliga- 
tion to delivér ALL their available 
milk to the factory, the supply of 
these with the raw material is as- 
sured, | 


The .co-operative dairy factory 
has only one single interest to look 
after: to process as much milk, of 
as good a quality, and produced 
as economically, as possible. To 
put it more briefly, its only interest 
is that of the dairy farmers them- 
selves. 

For this reason the co-operative 
dairy factory is interested not only 
in receiving and processing of milk, 
but also in 
(a) the purchase of first-class bulls 

likely to produce offspring with 

ever better hereditary qualities 
as. regards milk yield and fat 
content; 

(bd) the control of the milk, and 
milk-fat production of each in- 
dividual cow, making systematic 
selection possible; 


7 
August 6th, 1954 


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In our issue of July 2nd, 
C. F. Roosenschoon, infor- 
mation officer of the Royal 
Netherlands Dairy Union, 
described the vital role 
played by co-operatives in 
dairying in The Netherlands, 
where 71 per cent of all milk 
received from farmers and 
82 per cent of the entire pro- 
duction of butter is handled 
by the co-operatives. In this 
issue Mr. Roosenschoon de- 
scribes the manner in which 
the factories owned co-oper- 
atively have raised quality, 
contributed to the improve- 
ment of dairy cattle by stim- 
ulating the purchase of first 
class bulls and in a multi- 
tude of other ways improved 
standards in the industry. 


Participants in the Farm- 
ers’ Tour of Europe this fall, 
sponsored by The Western 
Farm Leader, and conducted 
by the Holiday Travel Ser- 
vice, will be given every op- 
portunity by the Department 
of Agriculture and Co-op- 
eratives of Holland, to see 
for themselves what has 
been achieved, as well as 
to visit places of beauty and 
historic interest in this and 
eight other countries of 
Europe. 


(c) fighting cattle diseases and 
parasites (TB, contagious abor- 
tion, Tabanus or gadfly, etc.); 
improvement of cow-house equip- 
ment; 
improved production of fodder; 
improved feeding methods; 
efficient, hygienic milking; 
(h) mechanical milking; 
(i) cooling and storing of mifics 
(j) cleaning of milking appliances on 
the farm; A 
(k) improved transport to and from 
the farm; 
(1) the training of youths from the 
countryside for dairy personnel; 
(m) the use of by-products from the 
dairy industry as feeding stuffs . 
on the farms (skim milk and 
whey for calves and pigs); 
collaboration with other  co- 
operative societies and associa- 
tions aiming at the further deve-— 
lopment of cattle farmers: and 
dairy farming generally; 
consolidation of the financial in- 
dependence of the _ country’s 
agricultural population, 


Co-ops Are Motive Power 

It will be clear from the above 
enumeration that the co-operative 
dairy factories take a large and vital 
share in the national action to raise 
Dutch agriculture — in which cattle 
farming forms such an important 
element — to a still higher level. 
Together with the existing agricul- 
tural organizations and Government ' 
guidance, instruction and propaganda 
and with other co-operative agricul- 
tural association, the co-operative 
dairy factory constitutes the motive) 
power that enables the country’s 
agriculture to be run as efficientl 
and remuneratively as possible, 

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From 26 countries, 300 delegate 
attended the international conference 
on nuclear physics in Glasgow re 
cently, 


August 6th, 1954 — 
Reports to CFA Meeting 


De H. H. HANNAM, President 


C.F.A.—(from Page 1) 


cluding a brisk debate on agri- 
cultural affairs, including dis- 
posal of surpluses — particu- 
larly those of ‘the United 
States. 

Would Undermine Markets 


If such programs were continued, 
declared Dr. Hannam, the point would 
be reached someday when there would 
be no more surpluses, the producer 
of these surpluses would not have 
gained anything in the way of mar- 
kets, and world markets generally 
would have been undermined, and the 
people of the recipient countries 
would be worse off than ever. 

As expressed by Dr. Hannam, Mr. 
Parker and others, the recognized 
need is for aid to under-developed 
countries even in their food produc- 
tion, but not only in that., 

What is required in any sound. 
policy of assistance is the devel- 
opment of all their resources. This 
would enable them to increase 
their purchasing power, and thus to 
take their place with other nations 
of the world in the field of interna- 
tional trade. It would enable them 
to buy food and other of their re- 
quirements while selling products 
of their own on a fair basis. 

Vital to Canada : 

A very important part of the dis- 
cussions at the meeting centred on 
the foregoing problems, particularly 
upon the methods which might be 
used by the United States in market- 
ing its huge surpluses. Mr. Parker 
pointed out that this is a matter of 
vital concern to Canada, since the 
price at which the U.S. disposes of 
some of its surpluses of farm products 
might well set the level of prices for 
similar Canadian products. 

' The opening session of the federa- 
tion mid-summer meeting was held at 
the Federal experimental farm at 
Nappan, near Amherst. It was pre- 
sided over by Dr. Hannam, and attend- 
ed by Federation directors and farm 
organization officials from nine pro- 
vinces, and by Maritime farmers and 
agricultural workers. This session was 
followed by a two-day session of the 
board of directors. 

Reviews I.F.A.P. Decisions 


Debate on international agricultural 
affairs was launched following an ex- 
cellent review of the activities and 
decisions of the recent I.F.A.P. confer- 
ence in Kenya, given by J. A. Fergu- 
son, president of the Ontario Federa- 
tion, and one of Canada’s delegates 
to LF.A.P. ‘Mr. Ferguson reviewed 
particularly the. policy statement is- 
sued by the conference, which Presi- 
dent Hannam described later as the 
most realistic policy statement ever 
compiled by the International Farm- 
ers’ organization. rainy 

Discussions centred around decisions 
made in IF.A.P., and went on, as 
stated, to include the problem of dis- 
posal of farm surpluses, and event- 
ually to the relationship of this prob- 

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lem to that of the aid granted under- 
developed countries. 

» J. B. LeMoine, of Quebec, and other 
delegates urged federal government 


‘support in developing further markets 


at home in Canada for some of the 
farm products of which there are sur- 
pluses or likely to be surpluses, other 
than depending on the uncertainty 6f 
export markets, 


Maritime Affairs 


Prominent Maritime farm leaders 
and officials were present at the 
Federation meeting, including Hon. 
Colin Chisholm, minister of agricul- 
ture for Nova Scotia and F. W. Walsh, 
deputy minister, Hon. C. .C. Baker, 
minister of agriculturé for P.E.I., and 
R. Gilbert, of the N.B. department of 
agriculture, 

A history and review of the potato 
marketing board of New Brunswick 
and Prince Edward Island and their 
operations were given by Messrs. T. 
E. Duffy, manager of the N.B. board, 
and Lincoln Dewar, P.E.I. Federation, 
and Donald MacDonald, manager, 
P.E.I. Marketing Board. ; 

F. W. Walsh, deputy minister, of 
Nova Scotia, gave a review of condi- 
tions in the N.S. apple industry, and 
the problems which -had beset the 
industry since the loss of the British 


THE WESTERN FARM LEADER 


markets. He reported, however, that 
arrangements were being completed 
for some sale of apples to the U.K. 
this year. He told of improvements 
made by the industry in the elimina- 
tion of old ‘trees and those bearing 
undesirable varieties of fruit all of 
which had helped to put the industry 
on a more sound basis, 


Relations With Agricultural Institute 


Discussion was held during the 
opening session of the federation 
meeting on the efforts to co-ordinate 
relations between the Agricultural In- 
stitute of Canada and the Federation 
of Agriculture. 

The Agricultural Institute, the or- 
ganization of professional agricultur- 
ists in Canada, had not always seen 
eye to eye with the farm organiza- 
tion on matter of policy in agricul- 
ture, 

However, relations between the two 
organizations, said speakers at the 
Amherst meeting, had greatly improv- 
ed both organizations. Jack Wilton, 
president Manitoba Federation, re- 
ported on the action taken by his 
organization ‘in naming a_ working 


committee to operate jointly with one 


from the professional organization to 
promote greater understanding. 
Dr. George Smith, immediate past 


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Action taken by the CFA - 
semi-annual meeting on var- 
ious important matters—sup- 
port prices for butter and 
eggs, and on the report of 
the hog committee and other 
subjects—will be found in 
news items from Amherst on 
pages 3 and 8. 


president of the Agricultural Institute, 
who was present, paid tribute to the 
readiness of the president and offi- 
cials of the National Federation to co- 
operate with the Institute in bringing 
about better understanding and 
greater co-operation in activities . be- 
tween the two organizations. 


President Hannam, for the C.F.A.,, 
pointed out that the important point 
for professional agriculturists and ex- 
tension workers to realize that there 
was an economic problem involved for 
the average farmer in Canada in de- 
termining to what extent he could, 
financially, bring about the adoption 
in his farming operations of improved 
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91 to none against admitting Com- 
private property munist China to U.N. Washington 
Nam, : reports “Joe must go” campaign to 

July 24th, — U.S, high commission be waged in Wisconsin following fall 
in West Germany announces belief elections, Egyptian agreement ap- 
John was abducted; police hold view proved in British Commons, 257 to 26. 
he went to East Germany voluntarily; July 30th, — India and Portuguese 
had had conflicts with other branches Indian colony break off diplomatic 
of government, (Later, close friend relations; Indians seize control of 
states John, who had been in anti- several villages in colony, (Nehru 
Hitler plot, had been convinced has called upon Portugal and France 
Nazis were regaining power in West to give up remaining Indian colonies.) 
Germany and that his own position Washington reports Rhee’s campaign 
was therefore threatened.) Britain for all-out military drive against 
protests to Peiping shooting down of Communist China has been coolly re- 
airliner, U.S. planes, continuing ceived; joint statement with Eisen- 
search for survivors, shoot down two hower is in general terms, 

Chinese fighters off Hainan coast; July 3lst, — Mendes-France govern- 
state Chinese opened fire first, ment offers Tunis control of its in- 

July 25th, — India invites Canada ternal affairs. In U.S, Senate, Flan- 
and Poland to send representatives ders gets support in move to censure 
to New Delhi for meeting on Indo- McCarthy, whose supporters say at- 
Chinese truce, London reports Church- tack is “Communist-inspired.” 

ill is working for five-power atomic Aug. Ist.—Iran announces” Anglo- 


cut by one-third list of goods barred 
from export to Soviet bloc countries. 


Mendes-France 


wheat growers vote by small margin 
for marketing quota controls for 1955 
crop ensuring continuance of : parity. 
Ho Chi Minh promises security for 


in northern Viet 


Seek Maintenance 


Egg Floor Price 
At Present 38c. 


CFA Also Seek Provision To Ensure 
Producers Full Price, 


- AMHERST, N.S.—In making the re- 
commendation that the present floor 
prices of 38 cents for eggs out of 
storage was made by the poultry 
committee of the CFA (the recom- 
mendation being adopted by the Fed- 
eration semi-annual meeting), it was 
asked that some provision be made 
for the protection of producers in re- 
ceiving the full benefits of the floor 
price. A recommendation that floor 
prices be provided on poultry meats, 
was also made, This latter request 
has been made on previous occasions 
through Federation circles, but has 
not been accepted by the federal au- 
thorities, 

The charge was made during dis- 
cussion of the first of these resolu- 
tions that while producers, under the 
wholesale floor set price, should re- 
ceive something like 29 cents per 
dozen, they were in some cases re- 
ceiving far less, because of manipu- 


lation of the fioor price program by 


dealers.—C.G.G, 


i 
COLIN G. GROFF, who as Secretary- 
Treasurer for many years made a 
major contribution to the building up 


of the Federation, and continues his. 


services to the organization as Trea- 
surer and Information Officer. 


_ Endorse Marketing Plan 

Following a panel discussion by 
two producers, two consumers, and 
a\farm economist (Dr, R. B. How of 
the University of Saskatchewan). the 
fourth annual Interprovincial Farm 
Union Conference, in Winnipeg re- 
cently, “wholeheartedly” endorsed a 
producers’ marketing plan for live 
stock, 

With Alberta delegates opposing, 
a resolution was carried calling for 
a single national farm organization, 
based on direct membership; while 
among other resolutions was one 
calling for a mass march on Ottawa, 
failing Federal government action to 
increase farm income. 

J. L. Phelps, chairman, presided 
over the meeting of 510 persons, of 
whom 28 were from Alberta and 
British Columbia, 


Iranian Oil Company has agreed to 
accept £30 millions in compensation, 
(£300 millions, asked originally); 
operation, under international group, 
to be resumed, 

Aug, 2nd.—Britain, U.S. agree to 
exchange information on guided mis- 
siles; U.S. said ahead in quantity 
production, but British research has 
produced advanced ideas, U.S, Senate 
votes to set up bi-partisan committee 
to investigate charges against Mc- 
Carthy, ‘ 

Aug, 3rd.—Following clashes with 
regular army personnel, private army 
of president Armas ordered to dis- 
band by ruling junta of Gautemala. 


Investigate Export 


Outlet for Hogs 


Federation Also Seeks Change 


in Hog Grades 


AMHERST, N.S. — In view of, the 


expected surplus of hogs this fall, the 
C.F.A, semi-annual meeting adopted 
a recommendation of the hog com- 
mittee that a committee of the or- 
ganization investigate export- outlets 
and other means of handling the pos- 
Sible surplus. 


Hog Grades 
A report from the federation’s hog 


committee was adopted recommend- 
ing the adoption of a change in hog 
grades based on the grades recom- 
mended some time ago by the na- 


tional swine committee, with the pro- 


vision that the adoption of the grades 


proposed by the federation be subject 
to satisfactory negotiation of re-ad- 
justment of premiums with the fed- 
eral authorities, and __ satisfactory 
agreement between producers and 
packers as to grade differentials in 
price. é 
Press for Live Export Grading 

Another effort will be made to have 
the federal government provide grad- 
ing of live hogs that go into export. 
The C.F.A. has made this request be- 
fore without success. There is some 
export of hogs chiefly from western 
Canada, to U.S. markets on a live 
basis, but these hogs do not pass the 
grading regulations provided for do- 
mestic hogs, nor draw the govern- 
ment premium for top hogs, The 
federation meeting agreed to make 
the request for grading again, and 
asked the national office to negotiate 
respecting the matter of premiums. 


— C.G.G, - 
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OTTAWA LETTER 
(Continued from Page 1) 


men and the whole program will un- 
questionably be good advertising for 
Canada’s grain industry. 

Official Forecast Aug. 13th 

There will be no official forecast 
of the production of the principal 
field crops until the first of these is 
issued on August 13th. Until then it 
will not be possible to estimate the 
extent of acreage abandonment caus- 
ed by flooding in certain parts of 
the prairie provinces. 

Leaving this out of account, the 
preliminary estimates of acreages in 
principal crops and summerfallow in 
the three prairie provinces show 23,- 
437,000 in wheat, which is 5 per cent 
under the 24,648,000 acres in 1953 and 
7 per cent under 1952. The 6,715,000 
acres sown in oats this year is 3 per 
cent over 1953 but substantially below 
the acreage for 1952 and 1951. Bar- 
ley acreage of 7,568,000 is 12 per cent 
under 1953 and 7 per cent under 1952. 
The acreage in rye, amounting to 
752,700 this year is 47 per cent under 
1953. The 1,177,200 acres in flaxseed 
shows an_ increase of 27 per cent. 
Summerfallow shows this year a total 
of 25,253,000 acres, an increase of 
11 per cent over 1953 and even greater 
increases over the two previous years, 

The farmers of Alberta this ‘year 
put 7,474,000 acres in summerfallow 
compared with 6,375,000 last year ap 
increase of 17 per cent. Wheat was 
sown according to these preliminary 
estimates in 5,862,000 acres compared 
with 6,340,000 acres last year, The 
acreage in Oats, 2,354,000, is almost 
identical with last year’s, while barley 
acreage decreased from 3,489,000 in 
1953 to 3,053,000 this year, 

There have been good deliveries of 
cattle and hogs to markets during the 
past few days. In fact, according to 
those following these markets closely 
in agricultural circles here, some sur- 
plus of deliveries from Ontario farms, 
This increase in cattle deliveries from 
Ontario comes from the drought that 
has hit the pastures. Some cattle 
have in consequence been pretty poor 
stuff, but prices have held up pretty 
well although there is visible the sea- 
sonal drop. 


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August 6th, 1954 


The Western Farm Leader, or. 


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of French royalty and aristocracy, in 
centuries gone by, old chateaux often 
contain valuable and interesting col- 
lections of old furniture and pictures. 

One of the most beautiful — the 
one pictured above — is the chateau 
of Chambord, on the Loire River, near 
Blois, to be visited by the Farmers’ 
Tour of Europe. 


Altogether, members of the Tour 


will spend some nine days in France, 
travelling from south to north, through 
the country of vineyards, then the 
wheat plains, and the cattle country of 
Normandy; from the Mediterranean to 
the English Channel. There will be 


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visits to experimental farms, goose 
farms, to the headquarters ofthe Inter- 
national Federation of Agricultural 
Producers; ‘and meetings with repre- 
sentatives of the French farm organiza- 
tions, and ofthe Ministry of Agriculture. 
A letter from the secretary of the gov- 
ernment-sponsored travel organization 
of France, published on another page, 
gives assurance of avery cordial wel- 
come to the Farmers’ Tour. 

several days will be spent in Paris, 
one of the world’s greatest capitals, 
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theatres, opera, and other places of 
entertainment. 


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Exchange of potted plants, and of 
canning tips, will mark the August 
meeting of Borschiw F.W.U.A. 
AHaight), writes Mrs. Joe Ogrodnick. 
A-Farmers’ Day picnic is planned for 
August 8th. 


Plans for a picnic in early August 
were made at a recent meeting of 
Heath F.W.U.A., which also heard a 
full report of the Vermilion conven- 
tion by Mrs. R. Jones, and reading of 
the bulletin on education by Mrs. Pat- 
terson, reports Mrs, Earle Murray. . 


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Dear Farm Women: 


Frie 


Comox, B.C. 


There are no doubt many who will 
feel a pang as of the loss of a friend 
at the thought of the passing of 
“Sydney May”. Asa fellow-contribu- 
tor to the same paper, may I add my 
expression of sympathy to those of his 
immediate family and direct personal 
contact as well as to the large num- 
ber of friends who knew him only 
through his ‘Mustard and _ Cress,” 
which gave so many a whimsical note 
and caused many to laugh, There are, 
I am sure, many, many peoplé up 
and down the country who can join 
in the building up of the memento 
which he said he would like and say 
“He made me laugh”, 


Have Enriched Our Lives 


And when we stop to think, how 
much richer our lives are because of 
the friends of the printed word we 
have known only through their writ- 
ings through the years. Without ref- 
erence to the great literature of the 
past upon which our civilization is 
built, we have had a host of friends 
who have added to our lives through 
the years, who were in a sense our 
contemporaries. Very different the 
type, no doubt, at different stages of 
our lives, 

In the early days of our reading; 
we probably thought that books and 
papers were Topsy-like and just grow- 
ed. We thought only in terms of the 
characters in our books — for we were 
given to stories largely — and some 
of them became our friends. 


Range of Reading Broadened 
Later on our range of reading 


a 


of the Print 


ed Word 


broadened. We read of the move- 
ments of some characters not only for 
pleasure; we read for information, 
for advice, for entertainment in a 
wider sense. We began, too, to think 
in terms of the author of what we 
were reading and began having more 
or less appreciation of his or her 
characteristics. We grew to appreciate 
some for one thing, some for another. 
Possibly, for instance, one might have 
been for the contribution he or she 
was making to the study of social 
conditions and their betterment. Or 
possibly we might have appreciated 
another for the sheer beauty of lang- 
uage, and so forth. 


Opportunity That May Not Recur 


Possibly those of us who are getting 
to be among the older readers have 
had an opportunity which never oc- 
curred before, and which never will 
again. Ours has been a time when it 
has been comparatively easy to get 
books and papers and at the same 
time there have not been for us as 
many diversions as the succeeding 
generation will have. There were long 
winter evenings at home. Today cars 
and better roads make it much easier 
to “be off”, and the habit grows. And 
no doubt the ease of transportation 
will increase through the years. 

Television will no doubt find its 
feet later on and will be an _addis 
tional source of enrichment making it 
still easier to make friends, for people 
will be seen and heard as well. But 
in the meantime, we can be most 
grateful to those who have added to 
life for us by what they have written. 


Yours sincerely, 
H. ZELLA SPENCER. 


FARM HOME AND GARDEN 


Peach and Pear Salad: 
arrange on lettuce leaves, 
whipped cream, and serve with:— 
Currant Dressing: 


Drain peach 
Fill cavities with currant jelly, garnish with 


and pear halves, if canned, and 


Combine % cup mayonnaise, 2 tbs, currant jelly, 2 


tsp; lemon juice; -whip % cup heavy cream, add 1 tsp, sugar, and fold 


into mayonnaise mixture, 


Cooked Salad Dressing: Blend 1 tsp. 
each salt and mustard, a dash of 
cayenne, 2 tbs. flour, 2 tbs. white 
sugar; add 1 beaten egg, mix well, 
then add 1 cup evaporated milk, and 
cook in double boiler until thick; cool, 
then add slowly 4 tbs. lemon juice. 


Home Freezing:.needs care, warns 
the Ottawa Department of Agricul- 
ture. Vegetables should be processed 
when at peak condition, and as 
quickly as possible after harvesting. 
After washing, they should be blanch- 
ed, a few at a time, in a large vessel 
of boiling water. Then they should 
be plunged immediately into ice 


water, or at any rate very cold water, 
drained, wrapped and placed in the 
freezer unit quickly. Freezing should 
be done in small lots, to make sure 
heat is removed rapidly. 


Polio Germs: are thought to be car- 


‘ried by houseflies and polluted water. 


Children should be ‘protected from 
flies and kept away from doubtful 
water. 


Milk: will often be accepted by 
children who don’t ordinarily like it by 
tinting with a cooking color and add- 
ing lemon, peppermint, or. other 
flavoring. 


August 6th, 1954 


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With No. 30 mercerized cotton, the 
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With a minimum of pattern parts, 
this three-piece outfit is designed for 
girls, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 years. In size 6, 
the blouse takes 1 yard 35 inches 
wide; the jumper 1% yards and the 
fackot 1%. Price of pattern 4545, 35 
cents, 


When ordering pattern’ please be 


sure to include your name and ad- ~ 


dress, and to give size of pattern re- 
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THE WESTERN FARM LEADER | 


(219) 11 


The Bogey of “State Medicine” 


(From the Ottawa Citizen) 


T the convention of the Canadian Medical Association in 
Vancouver last month, strong opposition was expressed 
to any attempt to put the doctors “under the control of 


the state.”’ 


The leadership of the profession, in this country 


as in the United States, frequently condemns what is variously 
described as “state medicine” or “compulsory socialized medi- 


cine.”’ 


Although these critics seldom get down to definitions, 


Britain’s national health service usually comes in for a roast- 
ing at some point. But the latest report on the British service 
explodes many misapprehensions. 


In 1950, Britain’s Central 
Health Service Council ap- 
pointed a committee under a 
prominent physician to gather 
facts about the general medi- 
cal practitioners and _ their 
standard of service. The find- 
ings, the London Times re- 
ports, present a “reassuring 
picture,” with certain reserva- 
tions of which ‘‘none is funda 


mental.” 
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Opponents of the _ health 
scheme had predicted that the 
doctor - patient _ relationship 
would be destroyed, that the 
general practitioner would be 
underpaid and steadily super- 
seded by the specialist. The 
committee’s report, however, 
concludes that most people 
have their family doctor, and 
that the doctor - patient rela- 
tionship is ‘‘in some respects 
. , - better than before,’ be- 
cause of the “absence of the 
money bar” and because of “‘in- 
creasing co-operation between 
doctors.” 


Moreover, the doctors seem 
to be well paid. A G.P. (General 
Practitioner) with the maxi- 
mum number of patients on his 
list would make about $8,500 
in capitation fees alone, 
whether or not he was called 
on to attend them all. On bal- 
ance, the report endorses this 
method of payment as the 
best... 

* * 

If this is “state medicine”, 
then the bogey does not seem 
very frightening. Canada’s 
hospitals are inadequately fi- 
nanced; many of its people 
have no-health insurance, or 
pay too much for what. they 
have; the country has not 
enough doctors, dentists, or 
nurses, and patients needing 
specialized. treatment 


tention. The most effective 
remedy for all these shortcom- 
ings would seem to be a scheme 
of nation-wide health services, 


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In this editorial, one of Can- 
ada’s leading daily newspapers 
goes on record in whole-hearted 
advocacy of nation-wide health 
services, with the cost spread 


over the whole population. 


The farm movement of Can- 
ada has for many years support- 


ed national health insurance, 
with coverage for all citizens. 
Determined and. constant pres- 
sure by the whole farm move- 
ment, however, in support of the 
resolutions which have’ been 
adopted by successive conven- 
tions is essential to the attain- 
ment of results—EDITOR 


provincially administered, with 
the cost spread over the whole 
population. 


News of Women’s Locals 


A produce sale was planned recent- 


ly by Milo-Queenstown FWUA, reports | 


Mrs, Umscheid. 


Athabasca F.W.U.A. earned $47.10 
by serving meals at the Athabasca 
convention, reports Mrs. T. C. Hag- 
gith, and made plans for serving re- 
freshments at the fair on August 5th. 


Three Hills F.W.U.A., meeting at 
the home of the president, Mrs. 
Loosemore, heard a fine report of the 
Olds convention, reports the secretary, 
Mrs. Rollis. 


The third in a series of talks on 
nutrition, by Mrs. Cole, and a conven- 
tion report by Mrs. Sweet, made up 
the program for the July meeting of 
Crown F.W.U.A. (Ponoka). 


Quilting’! was the order of the day 
at a recent meeting of South Berry 
Creek F.W.U.A. (Cessford); and ar- 
rangements were made for a quilting 
bee at the home of Mrs. Coultis. 


Mrs. J. Rooke offered to be agent 
for flowers in the community, writes 
Mrs. I. Harrington, reporting a recent 
meeting of Pollockville F:W.U.A. Mrs. 
Horner gave a talk on Pakistan. 


Mrs, Glen, secretary of Westlock 
FWUA, writes that Mrs, Smith read 
the education bulletin to a recent 
meeting, with comments on _ the 
same subject from various papers, all 
very interesting. ° 


For their July meeting, St. Albert 
FWUA combined with the FUA Local 
for arrangements connected with the 
float for the St. Albert 50th anniver- 
sary. Mrs, J. Fuhr reported on the 
district convention, 


Mrs, Wayne Gillette and Mrs, Axel 
Bystrom: gave very excellent reports 
of the Olds convention, at a recent 
meeting of Pine Hill FWUA (Red, 
Deer) reports secretary Mrs. K. K. 
Johnson, Mrs, R, L. Woody was 
hostess, 


Royce FWUA (Hines Creek) decided 
recently to use the “travel fund” 
they have been accumulating, by at- 
tending the Grande Prairie fair, and 


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Need for Housing Universal 


Even the wealthier countries of the 
world have not enough houses to 
provide properly for their population, 
according to a recent report on hous- 
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Alpha Milk Producers 
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George E. Church presided over the 
recent annual meeting of Alpha milk 
producers in Calgary. J. A. Wood and 
E. A. Johnstone, president and general 
manager, respectively, of Central Al- 
berta Dairy Pool, spoke to the meet- 
ing, and J. T. Cullen reported on be- 
half of the delegates attending the 
annual meeting of the Pool in Red 
Deer. Manager R. V. Duffy presented 
a report on the affairs of the Calgary 
branch. J. Cutt was re-elected for a 
further term of three years on the 
Milk Committee, consisting of Geo. E. 
Church, chairman; J. T. Cullen, vice- 
chairman, Joe Schmidt, secretary, J. 
Kirby and Mr. Cutt. 


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In mailing weed specimens for 
identification, it’s important to send 
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reaney in a recent bulletin from 
Line Elevators Farm Service, If at 
all possible, the plant should be sent 
when in flower or bearing seed. Weed 
identification services are provided 
by agricultural representatives; ex- 
perimental farms; provincial field 
crops branches, or universities; the 
division of botany, Science Service, 
Ottawa; or the Line Elevators Farm 
Service, at Winnipeg. 


‘The . Wheat Situation 


By E. PATCHING Alberta Wheat a 


The grain marketing situa-—- 


tion in western Canada will 
—probably be tighter during 

the 1954-55 crop season than 

ever before. 
Record Peace-Time Carryover 

When the last crop season ended 
on July 31st, this country had a carry- 
over of between 550 and 575 million 
bushels of wheat and about 225 mil- 
lion bushels of coarse grains, making 
a total of 800 million bushels of all 
grains. This is the highest peacetime 
carryover, exceeding last year’s figure 
by about 175 million bushels. On July 
31st, 1943, following the harvest of 
the large 1942 crop and when exports 
were disrupted by the war, Canada 
had a wheat carryover of 596 million 
bushels. 

Elevators Filled — Much on Farms 

Country elevators across the prairies 
are generally filled to capacity and a 
large quantity of grain still remains 
on farms. At the end of July, coun- 
try elevators in Alberta were holding 
over 90 million bushels of all grains. 
Over-all capacity is rated at about 
110 million, but the effective capacity, 
after allowing for working space and 
the necessity of keeping various 
grades and types of grain separate, 
is scarcely 95 million. 

This leaves only about 5 million 
bushels of space available for de- 
liveries this autumn. Of course, ship- 
ments between now and harvest will 
increase this figure somewhat. It ap- 
pears likely, however, that grain pro- 
duction in Alberta will be at least 300 
million bushels. 

Must Store Most on Farms 

It is obvious, then, that almost all 
of this year’s crop will have to be 
stored right on the farm. 

Barring some major catastrophe, 
such as a heavy frost in early August, 
western Canada should produce 500 
million bushels of wheat this year. 
Yields this year will again be well 
above average. The long-time aver- 
age wheat production in western 
Canada is about 390 million bushels. 
On only five previous occasions has 
the wheat outturn exceeded 500 mil- 
lion bushels — in each of the past 
three years, 1942, and in 1928. 

United States and Europe 

The United States ended its crop 
year on June 30 with a carryover of 
903 million bushels of wheat. This 
year’s crop, though somewhat reduced 
by the recent heaf wave, will not be 
far short of one billion bushels, giv- 
ing an over-all wheat supply of 
nearly 1,900,000,000 bushels, This is 
enough to supply that country’s 
domestic and export needs for a two- 
year period. 

In Europe crops-are not turning out 
as well as indicated earlier, but, while 
production will be below that of the 
past two years, it will still be large. 

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Increase Shipping Output 

GLASGOW, Scotland — Almost a 
quarter of a million tons of new 
shipping was launched by Clyde ship- 
yards in the first half of this. year, 
nearly 50,000 tons more than in the 
same part of 1953. Valued at nearly 
$56 millions, 44 vessels were brought 
to the launching stage, 


DEMONSTRATION PLOTS 


One way to judge the suitability of any 
variety of grain for a particular district is 
to see it growing side by side with many 


POG This is possible by paying a visit to one of the 
large number of “Crop Testing Plan” Demonstration Plots 


lanted this T iyrnd not only by our elevator agents but also 


y individual farmers. 


Ask your Searle Agent for the location of the nearest 


plot. 


SEARLE GRAIN COMPANY, LTD. 


_to $7.50 for common; 


Livestock Markets Review 


CALGARY STOCKYARDS, Aug, 4th— 
Hogs closed yesterday $25, sows $13; 


‘good lambs $19 to $19.50; Good to 


choice grain fed butcher steers were 
$19.50 to $21.50, down to $13 for com- 
mon; good to choice heifers $17.50 to 
$20, down to $11 for common; good 
cows $9 to $10, down to $7.25 for com- 
mon; canners and cutters $4 to $7; 
good bulls $11.50 to $17.50, down to 
$9; good stocker and feeder steers 
$15.50 to $17, down to $12 for com- 
mon; good to choice veal calves $17 
to $20.25, down to $13 for common. 


EDMONTON STOCKYARDS, August 
2nd—Hogs closed last week at $29.25, 
Grade A, for Vancouver, Choice steers 
sold $20.25 to $21, down to $11 for 
common; choice heifers were $18.50 
to $19.50, down to $10 for common; 
good cows sold $9.25 to $10.25, down 
canners and 
cutters were $11 to $11.75. Good 
spring lambs brought up to $23, 


s 
The Dairy Market 


Special cream, to producers, is 59 
cents; No, 1 is 57, No, 2 is 48 and off- 
grade 42.  First- grade butter, in 


prints, wholesale, is 60 cents, 
« 
Egg and Poultry Market 


Locally, prices to producers are: 
Eggs, Grade A large 40, medium 38, 
small 30; B’s are 20, C’s 16. Dressed 
chicken, under 4 lbs. are 28, over 4 
30; broilers 33. Dressed fowl, under 
are 16, 4% to 5 are 18, over 5 lbs. 


speci MA iio ie 
Does Not Think 
Depression As In 
30’s Should Return 


AMHERST, N.S. — “Some 
people are fearful that large 
grain supplies and lower grain 
prices means a return to the 
depression of the ‘30’s’ — I do 
not think this should be the 
case,” stated Dr. E, C. Hope, 
economist of the Canadian 
Federation of Agriculture, 
in concluding a survey of the 
“Outlook for Canadian Agricul- 
ture” before the semi-annual 
meeting of the Canadian Fed- 
eration of Agriculture here. 


See Some Decline 
“As long as capital investment in 


North America remains high, and as- 


long as huge government expenditures 
are being made for defence, it does 
not. seem reasonable that we shall 
return to the conditions of the 1930’s”’ 
said Dr. Hope. ‘The disturbed inter- 
national political situation will likely 
last for some years. But in the mean- 
while the net income of agriculture 
in Canada is likely to.continue its slow 
decline to lower levels over the next 
twelve months. 


“The recession which has been in 
evidence in North America since about 


‘June last year now appears to’ have 


run its course and business gives evid- 
ence of staging a comeback, It would 
appear that at the low point this 
spring unemployment was about 200,- 
000 more than should be expected in 
our growing economy, 


“Recessions Will Not Be Serious” 


“Capital investment, the backbone 
of our economic growth has not falt- 
ered, and gives promise of continuing 
its upward trend. As long as capital 
investment does not decline recessions 
will not be serious. 

“On the.whole, in spite of apparent 


surpluses of certain basic raw mater-. 


ials which occur from time to: time 
the underlying world economic situa- 
tion remains moderately inflationary — 


August 6th, 1954 


Convert Butter Into 
Butter Oil to Ship to 
Middle East Countries 


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, — For 
shipment ‘to the middle East, 
under a United Nations Pro- 
gram, Land O’Lakes Creameries 


Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn.,, re- 
ceived one of two contracts to 
‘convert butter owned by the 
U.S, Department of Agriculture 


to butter oil (ghee), The co- 
operative processed 750,000 Ibs. 
of butter in this way — melt- 
ing it, then separating the fat 
from the water and curd, 


because of the delicate and uncertain 

international political situation. 

Sees Livestock Expansion — Lower 
Prices 


‘“‘World supplies of all grains are at 


high levels. For the time being these 
heavy supplies are likely to bring 
pressure on grain prices until the sur- 
plus grain disappears as direct human 
food and in the form of additional 
livestock and livestock products, For 
the time being this means likely an 
expansion of most forms of livestock 
and lower livestock prices.” 
Current Situation 

Dr. Hope dealt with the current 
situation, as at the time when his 
report was prepared, in wheat and 
other grains and in livestock and 
dairy and poultry products, and with 
the relative income position of 
farmérs and non-farm workers. 

Owing to good crops last year in 
the normally exporting countries, sup- 
plies of wheat on hand at June ist 
were 40 per cent higher than a year 
ago, said Dr. Hope, amounting to 1,- 
700 million bushels. U.S. exports in 
the first ten months of the crop year 
were off 100 million, Canadian ex- 
ports off 90 million, Australia 32 mil- 
lion; but Argentina exports increased 
by 74 million. -Dr. Hope estimated 
that the Canadian carryover would be 
only a little less on August 1st than 
the record carryover of 594 million on 
August ist, 1943. He gave the fol- 
lowing figures on Canadian crops plus 
carryover from 1941: 


Canadian Crop Plus Carryover 


Crop Total 
Year Carryover Crop Supply 
1941 480 314 794 
1942 423 556 980 
1943 594 284 ‘878 
1944 356 416 172 
1945 258 316 576 
1946 73 413 486 
1947 86 341 427 
1948 77 386 463 
1949 102 371 473 
1950 112 461 573° 
1951 189 5953 i 
1952 217 688 5 
1953 369 614 983 
1954 580 480 1,060 


If this year’s crop should average 
20 bushels, the total supply of wheat 
would exceed 1 billion bushels: “the 
largest on record and more than twice 
os euch as in any year from 1946 to 


Record Supply in U.S. Also 

With indications of a crop of 1 bil- 
lion bushels in the U.S., and a carry- 
over of 900 million, that country a 
would have the largest supply on r 
ord. 

Though the overall picture indicated 
a total world crop a little less than 
last year (7.15 million bushels), total 
world supplies would still be at record 
levels because of substantial carry- 
overs. 


Under Foreign Aid Programs 
“During the present crop year,” Dr. 
Hope said, “about a third of U.S. 
wheat exports are moving under var- 
ious foreign aid programs. For 1954, 
sales of CCC owned wheat for export 
will be priced at the domestic ye 


MALE’ HELP WANTED 


ACTUAL JOBS IN CANADA, U.S., SO. AM., 
> Info, Oeenten =. C140 318 
Stuart St., Boston. : 


”“ 


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August 6th, 1954 


Boards of Three 
National Co-ops 
Meet Next Week 


‘Important . Questions on 
Agenda of Sessions to Be 
Held in Ottawa 


By NORMAN F. PRIESTLEY, 
Secretary, Alberta Co-operative Union 
Next week the boards of three na- 
tional co-operative organizations will 
meet in Ottawa. Advantage is being 


. taken of the midsummer meeting of 


the board of the Co-operative Union 
of Canada many of whose directors 
are members of the board of the 
Co-operative Development Founda- 
tion and of the provisional board of 
the Canadian Co-operative Credit 
Society, which was incorporated last 
year, All three meetings will be held 
in the Chateau Laurier, August 12th 
to 14th, 

Representatives of the member 
bodies of The Canadian Co-operative 
Credit Society will elect the “perma- 
nent” board and decide among other 
matters the location of the national 
office. Ottawa and Regina have been 
under consideration, 

The board of the Co-operative 
Union of Canada will receive reports 
from President R. S, Staples on co- 
operative housing, income tax status 
of certain co-operatives, a brief on 
“loss-leadering’” prepared for the Re- 
strictive Trade Practices Commission; 
make preparations for the 1955 Con- 
gress of the Union, and will discuss 
with its delegate to the Congress 
of the International Co-operative Al- 
liance, W. B. Melvin, national secre- 
tary, some of the important interna- 
tional problems of the co-operative 
movement to come before that body 
in Paris, France, in September. 


THE WESTERN FARM LEADER 


Natural Gas in England 


LONDON — Natural gas has 
been discovered at Crowborough 


Warren, Sussex, about two hours 
by car from the centre. of 
London, 


50/14 Association 
Re-union August 14th 


In commemoration of the Dieppe 
raid, in which the 14th’ Armored 
Regiment (Calgary Tanks), played a 
distinguished part, the annual reunion 
and dinner of the 50/14 Association 
will be held in the Palliser hotel, Cal- 
gary, on the evening of 5p Minna 
August 14th (get-together 6:30, dinner 
7 p.m.). Special guests will be Col, D. 
Menard, D.S.O., C.D., commander of 
the Calgary Garrison, who will have a 
special message for his former Dieppe 
comrades, and Mr, Frank McMahon, 
patron of the Association, 

The 50/14 Association was formed 
by a joining of forces of veterans of 
the first world war who served in the 
50th Batallion, C.E.F., and those of 
the second who served in the 14th 
Armored Regiment, which carried on 
the 50th tradition. It is today the 
largest veterans’ organization of its 
kind in Canada, and continues to 
grow in membership. A very consider- 
able number of subscribers to this 
paper served in one or both of these 
units, They are invited to attend. 

The reunions are held in alternate 
years to celebrate the opening of the 
Battle of Vimy, April 9th, 1917, and 
the Dieppe raid, August 19th, 1942. 

President of the association is 
George T. Valentine of Calgary, Vice- 
president is A, H: Turney, secretary C, 
K,. McDonald, 2707-8th St, West, Cal- 


gary, 


International prices for most dairy 
products are weak and export compe- 
tition is keen, Prices paid producers 
in Canada for manufacturing purposes 


Principal among the items of busi--are generally the same or a little 


ness of the Co-operative Development 
Foundation will be consideration of 
the report of a committee which met 
in Winnipeg in July on the mandate 
of the 1954 Congress to institute re- 
search into past growth and future 
prospects of retail merchandising by 
co-operatives in Canada, 


less the export subsidy, which is the 
difference between the I.W.A. price 
and the domestic price. Secretary 
Benson has announced a wheat acre- 
age allotment of 55 million acres for 
1954-55 seeding, a substantial reduc- 


tion from 1953-54.” 


With barley supplies already large, 
there was a prospect that the supply 
available from the new crop would 
be a record; but the oats supply was 
likely to be more nearly normal, and 
increased domestic use of coarse 
grains which might well total 25 per 
cent during the coming crop year were 
favorable factors. 

Dr, Hope anticipated that the ris- 
ing. trend in hog marketings would 
continue for the balance of this year, 
and, if farrowings increase, would 
continue to expand at least until mid- 
1955. Prices would be dominated by 
prices in the U.S. and there farrow- 
ings were up 13 per cent over the 
previous year. This and large sup- 


. Dilies of all grains was likely to mean 


.Jwer prices for hogs over the next 
12 months, though hog _ production 
would remain a reasonably satisfac- 
tory enterprise. 
Increase in the number of milk 
cows would likely continue for an- 
other year or two and with normal 
weather conditions whole milk pro- 
duction should be up about 4 per cent 
as compared with 1953. ‘As domestic 
demand will increase from 2 to 3 per 
cent, this indicates an overall increase 
in surplus this year for export or to 
be added to stocks by April 1st.” 
The speaker reviewed the situation 
in butter, cheese, and evaporated 
milk production. ; 
“World dairy production,” said Dr. 
Hope, “appears to be increasing a 
little faster than effective demand. 


v 


lower than a year ago.” He believed 
the overall picture in dairy products 
for Canada indicated that production 
would be up more than domestic de- 
mand. 
Poultry and Eggs 

Poultry and egg production had 
been very profitable in the 1952-53 
poultry years, resulting in sharp ex- 
pansion. Egg marketings to date were 
8.3 per cent above the same period 
last year, while recently they had 
been up 15 per cent, this explaining 
the drop of 14 cents in the weighted 
average price to producers early in 
July, as compared with the corres- 
ponding price last year. Turkey 


poults hatch up to May 31st was 37 


per cent up. 

“Up till now,” Dr. Hope added, 
“most of the actual market increase 
in poultry and eggs has come from 
the cenrtal and maritime provinces. 
The greater part of the future increase 
will be coming from the prairie region. 
Prairie farmers since January have 
started to react to the large supplies 


of grain on farms.” 
é 


Ask Session if Needed 
AMHERST, N.S.—In its closing ses- 


sions, the CFA meeting wired Prime 


Minister St. Laurent urging that an 
emergency session of parliament be 
called, if mecessary, to prevent a 
railway strike. (This week the gov- 
ernment called parliament, provi- 
sionally, for August 12th.) 

The meeting protested the passing 
last year of Bill 29, giving power to 
the minister of national revenue, 
without appeal, to impose protective 
duties against any industrial goods 
entering Canada in competition with 
similar goods made here, 

Other resolutions protested any in- 
crease above Crow’s Nest Pass freight 
rates and favored payment of family 
allowances to immigrant families 
within one month of arrival instead 
of one year as at present, 

Other news of CFA meeting, includ- 
ing outline of Secretary David Kirk's 
report, next issue, 


The members own the surplus on the 
years operations of U.F.A. Co-op. Since 
the time of its beginning over 20 years ago, 
when it was organized by farmers to serve 
themselves, this co-op has been on a sound 
The dividends allocated 
to members are guaranteed because of 


financial basis. 


this sound financial position. 


The credit way of doing business is 
In a co-operative, extra cost of 


This is 


costly. 
business means less dividends. 
why your co-op is on a cash basis. 


We suggest to you that your local 
U.F.A. Co-op Maple Leaf oil agent cannot 
alford to give you credit. He must pay 
U.F.A. Co-op for the goods he sells to. you. 
»o he must have cash for the goods he 


sells. 


More and more farmers are using 
credit unions or banks to finance their fuel 
and lubricants bills. They realize that 
their co-op oil agent is a service man to 


supply their needs for petroleum products 


but is not in the money lending business. 


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& RANCHERS 


FARMER 
. We want all your. 
WOOL, HIDES, HORSE 
HAIR 


Our prices are the highest. 


Wool sacks and paper strings 
shipped on a minute’s ,notice. 


Guns 
Trappers’ Supplies 
Cowichan Virgin Wool Sweaters 
Mittens and Stockings 
Indian Beads Buckskins 

Moose Hides Coats 
Novelties Bead Work 
Ladies’ Beaded Coats in White and Tan 


SIMPSON & LEA 


708 Centre Street, Calgary, Alberta 


i 


vm Prest-o-Lite 

ba TRUCK and 

*. 2) TRACTOR 

= BATTERIES 
Repairs 

Rebuilding 


Battery Co. 
Phone 27744 


Calgary 


111-12th Ave. W. 


Summertfallowing Not 
Warranted on Irrigated 
Land, Says Agronomist 


LETHBRIDGE, — Given a proper 
fertility program, the practice of sum- 


merfallowing irrigated land is not 
warranted, writes S, Dubetz, irrigation 
agronomist at the Experimental 
Station here. A serious weed infesta- 
tion, or a land-levelling program, he 
notes, might justify summerfallow; 
but in general, proper rotations, with 
adequate fertilizer applications, 
should enable the farmer to harvest 
a successful crop every year on his 
irrigated land, 
Sipaleinlia koncll ccciniacsienacdoee 
_ Assets Grow Fast 

TRAIL, B.C. Assets of B.C. 
Central Credit Union have grown from 
$21,000 to $3,000,000 in ten years of 
operation, it was reported to the re- 
cent annual meeting here. Some 
$2,000,000 is now on loan, chiefly to 
credit unions, and of this, it was 
stated, only one loan of $6,000 was 
presently delinquent. 


Loads 4 times as 
many bales with 
only 2 men! # 


SAVES 50%, 


BALE LOADER| 


~ THE WESTERN 


FARM LEADER 


MUSTARD AND CRESS 


SSS 


Hello Folks! 


According to the Bad Egg of Crow’s 
Nest, a lot of people are so hard up 
they can afford only a few of the 
things they would be better off with- 
out. 

* * 

Nowadays, it cannot be denied that 
a lot of dark hair grows yellow with 
age. 

* . 

According to an ordinance of 1903, 
no more than 2,000 sheep at one-time 
may be driven down Hollywood Boule- 
vard. Undoubtedly to prevent a lot 
of film stars from wool-gathering. 


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TODAY’S DEFINITION | 


Colored Girl—Any female mem- 
ber of a race who doesn’t have 
to pencil her eyebrows, mascara 
her lashes, shadow her eyelids. 
rouge her cheeks, paint her lips, 
tint her finger and toe nails to 
make herself “glamorous”. 

* * 
\ ISN’T IT THE TRUTH? 


Says Sir Winston Churchill: “It is 
always better to jaw-jaw than to war- 
war.” Yes, and Sir Winston would 
agree, in the world of today co-exist- 
ence is better than no existence. 

* * 

The World War has been over a 
long time, but among the women of 
the world “The Battle of the Bulge” 
is still going on. 

* . 

Royal American Shows report that 
business on the Midway at the Cal- 
gary Exhibition and Stampede was 
extra brisk. 

Which of course means. that as 
nothing was lost on the metrry-go- 
rounds, nothing had to be made up 
on the swings. 

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ALBERTA LIMERICKS 
(Hanna) 
Now Molly Montana of Hanna 
Had a quite irresistable manna. 
She vamped all the guys 
Till a lad that was wise 
Said I’m sorry my dear but I 
canna, 
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Our office cynic says: “The best 


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CALGARY, ALBERTA 


By. LIONEL SIDNEY CAIN 


Have you made your reserva- 
tion for the Western Farm 
Tour of 


Leader’s big Farmers’ 
Europe? 


things in life are free and the worst 
are thrust upon us, 
* * 

And now Brother Barabash will take 
Over: 

“Truth is stranger than fiction”; 
but fiction, too, has its mystery and 
charm, and very often plays the role 
of a helpful Cinderella to her older 
sister Truth. 

* * 

Wisdom may be defined as doing 
and (or) saying the right thing at 
the right time in the light of truth. 
If this may seem a large order to fill, 
let us then remember what King 
Solomon, who is reputed to have been 
the wisest man who ever lived, said: 
“With all thy getting, get understand- 
ing.” 

* * 

The creation of art comes from the 
wedding of the temporal with the 
eternal, the union of material with the 
spiritual, the expression .of the time- 
less through form. 


TO BARBARA ANN SCOTT 


Sculptor, painter, poet, all 
Bring their beauty to unfold; 
With their chisel, brush or pen, 

Recreate in purer mold. 


Yet the beauty they create, 
Wrought on canvas, stone or 
page, 
Must apart from artists live— 
Though it lasts from age to age. 


But the beauty you create 
From your breathing living 
flesh -_ 
Flows in graceful moving lines 
Molded constantly afresh. 


Other artists bring us art 
Beautiful, but liteless—cold. 

You create in graceful. rhythm 
Beauty from your body’s mold. 


Volodimir Barabash. 


WELCOME, THE DUKE! 

Now that the Duke of Edinburgh is 
among us let’s give him the. kind of 
time he wants: freedom to be informal 
and see what he wants without a 
lot of ballyhoo. As _ Randolph 
Churchill writes in Truth about some 
other parts of the English-speaking 
world, not Canada: “So much stuff is 
printed nowadays about the Royal 
family that even when it is accurate 
and in good taste it tends to bore 
large sections of the public and to 
make even the most patriotic wish 
to read about something else. The 
gutter press writes about royalty with 
such alternate adulation and famil- 
iarity that it sickens the heart and 
mind of any intelligent human being.” 
Well, we- like the Duke and are glad 
to read about him, but we hope 
Canada won’t forget Mr. Churchill’s 
advice, 

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CURE FOR WALLY? 

Here's a piece from the papers for 
Wally, writes Mary of Carbon. Maybe 
he should think this over. 


“The volume of farm production is | 


greater on those farms operated by 
married men than on other farms, it 
was shown by studies carried out on 
farms in two mixed farming areas of 
southern Alberta. Helen C, Abell, in 
an article in The Economic Annalist 
entitled ‘The Women’s Touch in Cana- 
dian Farm Work,’ states that on 78 
per cent of the farms studied, women 
took care of poultry; on 72 per cent, 
did gardening; on 69 per cent. cleaned 
the milk equipment; on 61 per cent 
did milking; on 48 per cent, kept the 
farm accounts, Twenty-nine per cent 
did field work, and 26 per cent¥fed 


August 6th, 1954 


Assist in Survey*in North 
LONDON, Eng. — A squadron 
of flying boats from the R.A.F, 
Coastal Command will fly to 
the Arctic Circle at the end of 
July in the final trip to assist 
the British North Greenland 
Expeditions, The expedition is 
making a geophysical, geologi- 
cal and glaciological survey of 
hitherto unexplored areas of 
northern Greenland, 


livestock. Nearly all women did one 
or more of these types of farm work.” 


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Pshaw, says Wally, our incurable 
bach., with all the surpluses piling up, 
who wants to increase production. 
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PROGRESS 


“Not since the Wars of the Roses 
has literature. been held in such low 
esteem, Any television mountebank 
is now more important than any poet, 
novelist, dramatist.”—J, B. Priestley. 


FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW 


In a dark and squalid alley 
under leaden skies—The sight of 
flowers upon the sill would come 
as a surprise—even if the black- 
ened walls had not been blitzed 
and scarred—For beauty cannot 
tarry long where life is grim and 
hard. 

Yet, there it was! .. .a splash 
of gold upon the. grimy glass— 
Like a challenge boldly flung to 

. all who chanced to pass... con- 
juring the strangest scene be- 
neath the smoky sky: daffodils 


. . + @ lakeside path — and 
Wordsworth walking by! 
Someone in that ugly house 


had caught the sun’s pale gleam. 
Someone in that gloomy room 
had dared to dream a dream 
We? Someone, wiser than he 
knew, had: done a lovely thing— 
and brought into that ruined 
street the magic of the Spring. 


—Patience Strong in “The 
Round of the Year” 


TODAY'S BULLONEY . 


“Wealth is indicated neither by 
capital nor income, but by the amount 
the individual spends—the millionaire 
is no better off than the bank clerk 
if he only spends £500 a year.’ 

—London Daily Telegraph. 
* * 

Fern of Fernie reminds those plan- 
ning to preserve strawberries to shoo 
away the birds from the patch at 
this time. “Otherwise,” she asserts, 
“it is they who will be in a jam.” 

+ * Ns 

Farm products and human life seem 
to be the cheapest commodities nowa- 
days. 


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THAT’S THE SITUATION! 
MN NR i 2S 


Wonder Ship Sails From Scotland 


GLASGOW, Scotland — A fishing 
trawler, a processing plant, and a 
fish meal and oil reduction factory, 
all in one, is the Fairtry, now making 
her maiden voyage from Scotland to 
the Newfoundland fishing grounds. 
She is also the world’s biggest 
trawler, and was built in Aberdeg” 

After the fish are hauled Saale 
they are sorted, gutted, skinned, 
filleted, washed, weighed, and quick- 
frozen before being packed into car- 
tons and placed in cold storage 
(“deep freeze”) until the vessel re- 
turns to port, By freezing within 
hours of catching, Scottish. scientists 
believe, the fish will remain as fresh 
as the day they were caught for 
months, or even years, 

Other fish go through the fish meal 
and oil plant, 

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Dec. 6th. — “A National Health 
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How much does it offer? How can it 
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GRAIN HANDLING CHARGES 


Grain handling charges in western Canada are 
probably lower than in any other major wheat pro- 
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war levels even though the costs of other goods and 
services needed by farmers have mostly doubled or 
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